House Republicans slam Benghazi report as a whitewash

Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) listens as Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) questions witnesses during a House Oversight Committee hearing about the deadly attacks on an American embassy in Libya. (Drew Angerer /Getty Images)

House Republicans say Benghazi report seen as a whitewash

House Republicans said Thursday an outside panel's review of the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, was incomplete and is viewed as a whitewash by the public.Nine months after completion of the report that faulted State Department officials for inadequate security at the Benghazi compound, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee questioned the review board's leaders on why they never interviewed top officials, including then- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.The hearing renewed the partisan …